[Dixielandjazz] Miff Mole "The Break"

[Marek Boym]

You probably are right.
Cheers

On 23/08/2009, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> On Aug 22, 2009, at 6:51 PM, Marek Boym wrote:
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> > On 17/08/2009, Stephen G Barbone <barbonestreet at earthlink.net> wrote:
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> > > Dear Don and Bill:
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> > > Mole was special. Since you both probably have the record, listen to his
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> > > note break on Original Dixieland One Step. Okeh- circa 1926/7 - Miff
> Mole
> > > and His Little Molers
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> > > Instead of the "traditional" two bar smear on the intro, he does a
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> > > and very cleanly executed 15/16 note break. Now that's inventiveness.
> > >
> > > BTW: Since Mole recorded prior to Kid Ory, why do we always say Mole
> changed
> > > the Ory canon. Why don't we say Ory changed the Mole canon? <grin> (just
> > > kidding)
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> > Why the reservation?  It might well be true!
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> > Cheers
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> I guess my reasoning is that Mole was influenced by Eddie Edwards and Georg
> Brunies. The Brunies influence is evident on Mole's Tin Roof Blues solo in
> 1923. A virtual copy of an earlier Brunies solo on the same tune as a list
> mate pointed out.  Mole, being classically trained, soon developed his own
> technically excellent style. Then later on he seemed to get more legato,
> perhaps under the influence of Teagarden.
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> Ory, on the other hand was always Ory.
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> My opinion is that Mole and Ory developed their respective styles pretty
> much independently of each other. Even though they played/recorded at the
> same time, the bands each worked with were very different stylistically.
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> I think they were just playing the music the way each of them heard it
> within their styles and technical abilities. Ory's trombone was New Orleans
> Folk music, while Mole's was not.
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> So I think there were two (at least) canons of Dixieland trombone
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> Cheers,
> Steve Barbone
> www.myspace.com/barbonestreetjazzband
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